THE "PRISTINE MYTH" REVISITED
THE "PRISTINE MYTH" REVISITED
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1931-0846.2011.00118.x
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
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2
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Denevan, William M.
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作者：
Denevan, William M.
时任美国地理学家协会编年史编辑的布鲁恩发表了一期特刊，以纪念哥伦比亚的五百周年纪念日，这一期后来被命名为之前和之后的美洲。为了征集稿件，编辑任命了一个由卡尔·布策、比尔·特纳二世、布莱恩·哈雷和我组成的委员会。最终，布策成为了客座编辑。这期特刊的作者时间很紧。他们在中期构思了内容，起草了早期的手稿，并在春季对其进行了修改。该协会原计划在9月份出版，但希望8月在华盛顿特区举行的TH国际地理大会上能看到这一期。因此，实际上是在8月初出版的，是近年来出版速度最快的年鉴之一。这是尽管哈雷在起草了一篇带有数十幅插图的长篇粗略的文章后介入死亡的。除了写自己的两篇半文章和编辑本期的其他所有内容外，布策还将这一点缩减到了可管理的规模和连贯性。大会的与会者收到了免费的副本，因此该期的发行量比往常更大。考虑到我对之前人类影响的长期认识，我选择在原始神话上写作，反映了我自己受到卡尔·鲍尔、埃哈德·罗斯特伦德和詹姆斯·帕森斯的影响，以及我自己的研究，加上我逐渐形成的信念，即原始神话确实存在。当然，当我在麦迪逊的梅里特医院接受手术时，的夏天，我得到了柯克帕特里克销售的畅销书《征服天堂》，这无疑是我的动力。这本书的一个主要观点是，殖民时期的欧洲人改变了美洲的自然，而印度人的影响是良性的或根本不存在的。我沉浸在吗啡中，心想：“太天真了！”
Brunn, then editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, of a special issue in recognition of the Columbian Quincentennial, that issue later being titled The Americas before and after. To recruit manuscripts, the editor appointed a committee consisting of Karl Butzer, BL Turner II, Brian Harley, and myself. Ultimately Butzer became the guest editor. The authors of the special issue were under tight time constraints. They conceived the contents in mid-, drafted manuscripts by early, and revised them in the spring. The association had scheduled publication for a September date but wanted the issue available for the th International Geographical Congress in Washington, DC in August. Thus publication was actually in early August one of the fastest Annals assembled in recent times. This was despite Harley’s intervening death after he had drafted a long and rough article with dozens of illustrations. Butzer reduced this to manageable size and coherence in addition to writing his own twoand-one-half articles and editing everything else in the issue. Congress attendees received free copies, so that issue received a greater distribution than usual. I chose to write on the pristine myth, given my long awareness of pre- human impacts, reflecting my own Berkeley influences from Carl Sauer, Erhard Rostlund, and James Parsons as well as my own research, plus my emerging belief that a pristine myth does indeed exist. Certainly I was motivated when, in Meriter Hospital for surgery in Madison in the summer of, I was given Kirkpatrick Sales best seller The Conquest of Paradise. A major point of the book is that the colonial Europeans transformed nature in the Americas, whereas the Indian impact had been benign or nonexistent. I thought, loaded with morphine,“Such innocence!”